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Conference 7.286::sports_90

Title:OURGNG::SPORTS - Digital's daily tabloid
Notice:Please review note 1.83 before writing anything.
Moderator:VAXWRK::NEEDLE
Created:Thu Dec 14 1989
Last Modified:Fri Dec 17 1993
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:438
Total number of notes:50420

274.0. "NEWSFLASH!!NEWSFLASH!!" by STRATA::WHITEHAIR (Don't just sit there.......Do it now!) Wed Jun 20 1990 09:29

    
    I would like to reserve this note for NEWSFLASHES...
    
    and I've got one...
    
    
    	I watched this NEWSFLASH this morning.....about Sea World
    in Aulstraila (sp).  It appears that two stunt men made up this
    stunt to have both the boat and skier jump a pier, with the boat
    running through a little house at the end of the pier.  When the
    boat hits the house...it explodes.  Well everything goes as planed...
    the boat hits the ramp then the house...the house explodes and the
    boat emerges without problems....but....the skier....hits the ramp
    and makes the jump...aprox 120 ft...he came up short and smacked
    right into the pier!!!
    	I'm not sure if he lived.....does anyone know any more???
                          
    	My heart goes out to his loved ones.
    
    	Hal
    
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274.1CAM::WAYI have slipped the surly bonds of earthWed Jun 20 1990 10:541
Sounds more like a hot flash to me.....
274.2CSC32::J_HERNANDEZIWishCathyIrelandWouldMoonMe!Wed Jun 20 1990 10:564
    He bowed to "peer" pressure.
    
    
    
274.3PFSVAX::JACOBDo YOU snatch kisses, or...Wed Jun 20 1990 10:587
    re.2 shouldn't that be "pier" pressure.
    
    JaKe
    
    P.S. maybe he was thinking to himself just prior to the accident that
    he could use a good stiff one when he got off work that day!!!
    
274.4No one said a thing...STRATA::WHITEHAIRDon't just sit there.......Do it now!Wed Jun 20 1990 11:2622
    
    	The guy who hit the pier was a very well know skier...world
    class!  I don't know his name though.  I picked it up as a direct
    feed.  Maybe Grandpa could tell us more.  To me, it looked as though
    he deceided to watch the boat instead of concentrating on what he
    was doing himself.  Prior to showing the accident they showed the
    two practicing without the pier and the skier made jumps of 140
    ft several times...one time though, the boat flipped off the ramp
    and landed on the driver.  The driver was uninjured but the boat 
    received a large hole in the side.  I would still like to know if
    the skier is ok.  I know he took one hell of hit!  There were two
    divers under the pier at the time with emergency people on shore.
    The guys girlfriend was there at the time of the accident.  
    
    Isn't this what people go to see......someone getting hurt.
    You go to a  car race to hopefully see an accident....
    
    	Well, everyone is human!  Bones break!
    
    
    	Hal
    
274.5CAM::WAYI got a black cat bone, gotta mojo too...Wed Jun 20 1990 12:1122
I don't go to races to see accidents, any more than I go to a hockey
game to see a fight.

I used to be an EMT, and what you say is true.  People have a morbid
fascinations with other people's pain and suffering.  Hell, even
some of the EMTs I worked with got off on seeing blood and broken
bones.

The weirdest call I ever had was a really bad accident on CT 2.  We
got there, and had to extricate this guy from a vehicle (he later died)
but was conscious and talked with us the whole time we worked on him.
But, over on the guard rail was this guy sitting with his arm
around a girl who was bawling her eyes out.  We all assumed they
were relatives.

After a while our Captain asked who they were.  They were just rubberneckers
who stopped to watch.  Can ya believe it????


I hope the waterskier is alright....

'Saw
274.6Bubby shows Bernie how real men do it!!!CNTROL::CHILDSDiggin the lawn 6/20 w/ the TWOSWed Jun 20 1990 12:1215
This one's for Jake....

	I was watching some movie last night and these two girls were
talking about a love that they both had shared. One says to the other

"the first time he had me so hot, it was as good as my second husband
 and he's was from Pittsburg"....

 :^0

didn't know you guys had that kind of rep....

;^)

mike
274.7PFSVAX::JACOBindecision is a big problem, maybeWed Jun 20 1990 12:394
    Hey Mike, you learn something new every day, don't you???
    
    JaKe
    
274.8flashpointUPWARD::HEISERWed Jun 20 1990 15:161
    
274.9Bubby has a hot temper...hmmmmmmmmSHALOT::MEDVIDthe infinite complexities of loveWed Jun 20 1990 15:463
>    Hey Mike, you learn something new every day, don't you???
    
    Mike should also learn how to spell "Pittsburgh."
274.10flasher on the loosePFSVAX::JACOBindecision is a big problem, maybeWed Jun 20 1990 17:204
    
    
    JaKe